The Mutiny: Difference between revisions

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'''Crew:''' Rumble, rumble, rumble! Mutiny, mutiny, mutiny!|'''[[Stan Freberg]]''', ''The United States of America: The Early Years''}}

 

* Commander Riker of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' took his captain's side in a mutiny very early in his career; he later decided that had been [[Broken Pedestal|the wrong call]].

** Lampshaded in ''Disaster'' by Picard when three children he has [[Field Promotion|made "officers"]] [[No One Gets Left Behind|disobey]] his order to [[I Will Only Slow You Down|leave him to die]].

* ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. With the support of Vice-President Zarek, Lt. Gaeta leads a full-scale armed mutiny against Admiral Adama and President Roslin.

* In ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', there was an interesting case in the episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3 E24 Turnabout Intruder|Turnabout Intruder]]", where Kirk had switched bodies with his jealous, insane ex-lover, who wanted to be captain. The rest of the crew became suspicious of their captain's irrational behaviour. However all medical tests showed that Kirk was perfectly fine and even when Scotty suggested that they mutiny, McCoy pointed out the medical report was all that Starfleet would accept and they would be the ones who irrationally mutiny against their captain.

* In ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'', Guybrush's crew end up turning on him as soon as they set sail for the titular island. It works out in the end, though.

** And in ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'', the crew mutinies after they shipwreck on Blood Island, because they wish to return to their occupation as a [[Barbershop Quartet]].

* ''[[Allegiance]]'', a team-based multiplayer [[Simulation Game|Space Sim]] / [[Real Time Strategy]] hybrid, has [[The Mutiny]] as part of its gameplay mechanics. One player on each team fills the role of a commander, taking care of most of the RTS-level elements of the game -- building bases, investing in [[Tech Tree|research]], and managing the big picture of the battle. At any time, any other member of the team can propose a mutiny, at which point everyone on the team gets a vote -- and if the mutiny passes, that player takes over. This doesn't happen too often, but will happen to commanders who make egregious mistakes, especially if they behave arrogantly or harshly towards the rest of their team despite their own obvious flaws. (Competent commanders can usually get away with it, though...)

* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]'', the War Room erupted into this after the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff attempted to call off the Nuclear Strike after he learned from Big Boss that the missile data was fake.